Results 641-660 of 5,087 for speaker:Kathleen Funchion
- Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: Deputy Healy-Rae is a full half minute over time.
- Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: Everybody please calm down.
- Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: We will have to suspend this session if people cannot calm down. I know a number of things were said-----
- Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: -----and there will be an opportunity for the Social Democrats to reply at the end of the debate.
- Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: The next speaker is the Minister. I apologise, the next speaker is Deputy Pringle.
- Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: I commend my colleague Deputy Tully on this. As our spokesperson on disability, she has done huge work in this area. I also acknowledge that the Minister of State is here. I know she is passionate about this as well but we have to highlight when there are failings. As my colleague Deputy Cullinane has said, we have to lay that at the door of the Minister of State and of the Government. ...
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: Apologies have been received from Deputy Cairns and Senator O’Sullivan. I welcome from the Department of Justice, Mr. Doncha O'Sullivan, deputy secretary general, Mr. David Delaney, director of immigration service delivery, and Ms Emer Mullins, principal officer in the International Protection Office. I thank them for attending. I will now go through the usual procedure for...
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: I thank Mr. O'Sullivan. He mentioned that Ms Mullins is in charge of a particular section. Would she like to wait for questions on that area or is there anything she would like to say at this point?
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: It will be the same.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: There were some good suggestions there around the research and so on. That is a good idea.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: The next speaker is Deputy Murnane O'Connor, followed by Deputy Dillon. We are under time pressure to finish this session.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: We continue with our discussion of integration and refugee issues. In this session, we are joined by officials from the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Ms Sheenagh Rooney and Ms Carol Baxter, assistant secretaries. We have representatives from the County and City Managers Association and Local Government Management Agency, CCMA and LAMA, Mr. Michael...
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: I invite Mr. Michael Walsh to make his presentation.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: I thank Mr. Walsh. Members will have seven minutes to contribute. We are under a little more time pressure then normal because we are having two sessions today.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: The Deputy is over his allotted time.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: Does that happen directly from the airport? The minors are never in a situation where they are in a general centre.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: Okay. If the officials can send on any follow-up information it will be appreciated.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: We do have a second session too, so five to seven minutes is our timeframe.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: We could have spent another hour on this. It is very interesting and I really appreciated how the officials answered the questions. They were very concise and straight to the point which is really nice and welcome. Are members agreed that we will publish the opening statements for this session on the Oireachtas website? Agreed. We will suspend while the next guests come in.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: Deputy Brady has one or two additional questions, but I want to ask a few of my own first. On unaccompanied minors specifically, do we have the exact figure at the moment? What is the breakdown? Are most unaccompanied minors in foster families, in residential centres or is it a mix? When somebody presents in that situation, let us say they arrive at the airport, where are they directed...